Yeah, I'm BG Class of 2006 myself. My older brother (way older) was two years behind Brian and played on the soccer team with him.

My junior year, we went to the State Finals for the first time since Brian was there. At the time, he was playing socer in England and he called us during our pep rally to cheer us on. That was pretty awesome.

The Gronkowski family. They lived a few houses down from my family. Chris was in most of my classes in middle school - he's actually fairly intellectual. One of my friends lived in the house behind them. Every summer, she would have a pool party for her birthday. And every summer, the Gronkowski's would jump fence and pelt us with water balloons starting a water war. ~15 girls vs Gronkowski brothers? No chance. It freaken hurt to get hit. And they were still kids then.

Dave and Mike Hill, wearing the familiar ALRO hat. Dave did better in the PGA Tour, but Mike really came into his own in the Seniors Tour, tying for Tour Player of the Year in 1991. (I had to look that up.)

EDIT: See Blue Delt beat me to it way down below. Sorry. Late to the party.

EDIT 2: More brothers: Gary & Tony Krupa. Went to school with Tony, but had no idea until I got to NY and read it in the Times that they were national water skiing champions. Guess the kids with cottages at Clark Lake would've known.

For a city of modest size like Saginaw, it's really produced its fair amount of athletes amongst others (i.e. Stephen Lynch, Stevie Wonder).

Also, I haven't seen anyone mention Blair White, one of the few Spartans I have ever thought highly of. Upstanding guy that went from being a walk-on to an All-Big 10 WR and then the NFL, where he was impressively productive with Peyton throwing to him.

Charlie Lau, Grant Long and Fred Russell were all, at one point, residents of Romulus. Actually, my grandfather was a childhood friend of Lau.

That being said, I grew up in Saline and graduated two years ahead of Bobby Korecky, who went to Michigan and pitched for the Diamondbacks and Twins for brief stints. I think he is in the Blue Jays organization now.

Wait, I'm from Saginaw. Brandon Graham? Where is that coming from? He was born and raised in Detroit. You, sir, are disqualified.

The real Saginaw list is Woodley first. Yes, Pipkins was here for a while. I hate to give credit to former Spartans, but Jason Richardson made some money. Numerous other players, many Spartans, did some nice things in high school/college (like Charles Rogers, DeAnthony Arnett, Stu Schwiegart) but haven't translated it into pro success. Arnett may still do something special, but he made the same horrible mistake (turning down UM) twice.

Kenyon Martin was born here. Sam Sword is from here as well. Maurice Jones is from here. Probably the least known because he's only 5'7", but he's very exciting to watch on the basketball court. He's the point guard at USC. Oh, there was also some Draymond kid here too.

For the Frankenmuth guy.....uh, Brad Redford? Might be the closest thing you've got.

Born there or played their highschool career there? Being from NYC I had no idea which athletes were from New York, so I looked it up and found that Michael Jordan was born in New York but moved when he was a little kid. And then as I was reading further down the wikipedia list of famous people from NYC, I found that Vince Lombardi was born and raised in Brooklyn, so he's probably the biggest sports figure from my home town, no need to read beyond the "L"s.

My HS (Bishop Foley) was apparently good at pumping out female athletes, but not much on the guys side. Only D1 player I remember was former MI TE Mark Campbell. Had a couple of really good soccer players there when I was a student, including two or three who got D1 scholarships.

San Anselmo, CA: Vernon "Lefty" Gomez; hall of Famer from the Yankees. Joe DiMaggio also used to play poker in my neighbors pool house, and OJ Simpson was held to just 50 yards rushing in 30 attempts at the local high school back in his day

Drew Miller is in my middle school yearbook but he moved I think in 7th or 8th grade.

Mark Messner was from here but he played HS football at Catholic Central, which I believe that Wyatt Shallman is actually from Hartland too. It's also rumored that Mike Modano lived in Hartland for a little bit while growing up.

Muskegon also had Bobby Morse, played for MSU in the 80's, set the Saints franchise record for longest kickoff return for a TD.

Don Nelson was born in Muskegon.

Dan Blysma the Penguins coach was from Muskegon - West Michigan Christian High School when not playing junior hockey.

Muskegon has done quite well. I'm glad Bosch mentioned Ruvell Martin - I played with him at MCC and he was a very good athlete obviously. Too bad he was forced to play QB for us since we didn't have an alternate that could have taken advantage of him as a receiver.

You're not kidding about Whaley. As a Senior in HS he was a potential Top Ten draft pick in the Tyson Chandler, Eddy Curry draft class. He then ( allegedly) raped a 16 year old and fell off the map. I believe he played for the Utah Jazz for a few years though. Amazing talent.

Even after the rape thing he could never straighten his life out. Bounced around JC's, kicked out of Cinci, brief (I mean BRIEF) stint with the Jazz. He was a terror in hs. That team had another 6'10" kid on that team who had to sit his senior year because he used a year of eligibility in Canada, twins that both went on to start at Ferris, and another kid who played at JC.

I went to high school and played football with Paul "the Assasin" Butcher. He was a WR/DB, then went to Wayne State, physically blew up and became a linebacker/special teams player. In the pros, he earned his reputation as a special teams kamikaze. Madden put him on his All-Madden squad. He played for the Lions, Rams, Colts, Panthers, and Raiders.

Side note: I just learned that his son is an actor/singer and has appeared in quite a few shows.

Evan Jager, 2012 Olympian. We ran together in HS and now he gets a packed gym, cheerleaders and a band when he comes back home. Still crazy to think about, especially since it's all so new (the really blowing up part, he's been running professionally for a few years now).

Future hall of fame tight end Devin Funchess, epic starer and future quarterback terrorizer Mario Ojemudia, Drew Stanton and many more from Harrison High School. Not to mention Pam Dawber from Mork and Mindy.

I'm from Garrett, Indiana... so Chuck Bavis, who played at Purdue and would have been a top 10 pick in the NBA if not for a drunk driving accident. He held some guy named Lew Alcindor to his lowest carreer points total in college.

Al started at nose tackle for Bo, and Eric Riley was on the fab 5 team.

Went to Euclid myself, unfortunately we were full of buckeyes, Robert Smith, Pepe Pearson, Brandon Smith, and Thaddeus Gibson. Tony Fisher went to Notre Dame, and Chris Harell was the starting safety for Penn State's orange bowl/Manningham team.

I would also throw in The Helicopter Melvin Levett since ge went to both of our high wchools. Levett was something to see when he was in high school.

is home to a number of Red Wings and I believe a Lion or two, but the only ones from Novi High School are Mitch Maier, a reserve outfielder for the Ryals, and a girl I graduated with who went to the olympics in ice dancing.

Am I the only one from East Lansing on here? Or the only one willing to admit it? Todd Martin, who I went to high school with, made it to #3 in the world in tennis. Ben Poquette made it to the NBA. After that, it's pretty slim pickings.

Sweetest game I ever played in was us vs. Portage Northern Jennings senior year and we won 45-27, Greg had two TDs and Harrison had 300 yards and 3 TDs, Baraka also went off with 300 yards and 4 TDs. The Sorantos brothers were also playing for PN

Kzoo (portage central hs) guy here. Pete Metzelaars went to pc. I ran the 100 lined up next to tj duckett my freshman year. Tico duckett was an advisor guy at our school too. Nice guy. Some guys I ran track with played at gvsu when they won titles, but not sure of their contributions there.

I went to the same grade school as Earvin. Heck, my older brother used to get schooled on the playground by him even though my brother was a year older than Earvin. I'm a Sexton alum though, not Everett so different HS... Same home town though (Lansing for the younger readers here)

Everett alum here. I was at the homecoming game against Sexton when they renamed the gym after him. He was there too, and we won by a last second shot. Everybody stormed the court including him, which I thought was cool.

Shani Davis graduated from Marquette Senior High School. He moved up to train with the United States Olympic Education Center when he was still in high school. Probably can't consider him to be "from" Marquette but he did at least attended our high school.

I live down the street from where Madona used to live and played high school football with Pipkins for a year, also with Joe Reynolds. Other than that the whole Vanderkay swimming family went to the same high school as me.

I guess the only person that would even be remotely famous or great is Brent Cummings who lead Belding to back to back state championship appearances in 96 and 97. We won the championship in 97 and he was the states all time leading rusher for a few years. He signed with UM and spent his career on the bench mostly. He switched to CB and saw a few minutes in games that we already decided.

Paul was definitely not better than Brent. Paul was good, Brent was great. Paul ran more East West and had a tendency to dance too much. Brent was straight down hill even though he was fast and could juke.

We just moved back to Belding, MI from Kyle, SD which is on the Pine Ridge Reservation and about 88 miles Southeast of Rapid City. We loved it there and wish we could have stayed! No family though and with a newborn it was important to move back.

I was born in Detroit, but did most of my growing up in Solon. Mad Dog was before my time but I believe his "kick ass and take names" quote in Bo's book comes from a HS coach of his who was still around when I was in school...the youth minister at my Catholic parish btw.

I now live in Mentor, OH, home of former Baldwin-Wallace QB Jim Tressel. When Lee Tressel coached at Mentor High he encouraged his player Bill Kolesar to attend Michigan because Lee didn't like Woody Hayes. So we have Lee Tressel to thank for Bill's son John.

Baltimore Ohio. Larry Pegram is an AMA superbike rider/team owner. He's my age and had a Baltimore address but went to a different school. Does that count? I'm from a town of 3500 so we haven't had much of an impact on the world, unless you count acid rain from our paper mill!

Colton Fretter. Small town of 3000 people in southwestern Ontario. Won provincial hockey championships every year coming up. Colton grew up a die hard Michigan fan but wasn't recruited by Coach Berenson so he went on scholarship to state. Played four years in el and I do believe he wore a letter his senior season.

My high school produced Mark Stepnoski as well as a couple of pretty good hawkeyes in Bob Sanders and Eric Hinkle. The best known athelete from Erie is probably Fred Biletnikof, but Mike McCoy was a good one too. We had a few Olympians: Bruce Baumgartner, Nate Carr, and Caryn Kadavy. Javon Johnson and Eric Hicks of the NFL, and US Open of Bowling champion, Bob Learn Jr.

To add to the Benton Harbor list... don't forget Chet Walker. He was a starter on the 1966-67 Philadelphia 76ers (many considered the best NBA team of all time) and was elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame in February.

Graduated a year ahead of me. Lost to Battier era Country Day in state finals their senior years. That team had 4 guys that should have played at least D1 college ball but LaVall was the only one that had his shit together.

Orignally (and currently) from Pittsburgh - Obviously tons of football players, but probably has to be Dan Marino. Guys like Tony Dorsett and Joe Montana were born in the western PA area, but not actually in Pittsburgh. Same with both Ken Griffey Jr. and Sr.

Grew up in Monroe, MI - The only really famous people to come from Monroe are Christie Brinkley and Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (Miss America 1988). Also a bunch of people related to George Custer (his wife, for instance - George himself grew up in Monroe but was born in Ohio). For sports, maybe Bronco McKart (won a few WBO titles)?

Don't think I saw anyone else mention Brighton, MI. The only two I can think of are Drew Henson and Dave Pearson. Both played football for our wolverines. Ohh, and it's a bit of a stretch but... Doug Rice played for the Detroit Ignition (indoor soccer).